{"id":5381,"date":"2024-11-25T07:05:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T12:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=5381"},"modified":"2024-11-25T07:05:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T12:05:50","slug":"awesome-amount-of-graft-grift-trumps-new-doge-begins-to-identify-federal-agencies-for-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=5381","title":{"rendered":"<h2>AWESOME AMOUNT OF GRAFT &#038; GRIFT!!! Trump&#8217;s New DOGE Begins To Identify Federal Agencies For Overhaul<\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/trumps-new-doge-begins-identify-federal-agencies-overhaul\">READ HERE:<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Federal government agencies are using, on average, just 12% of the space in their DC headquarters<\/strong>,\u201d a Thursday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DOGE\/status\/1859457844044497294\">post<\/a>\u00a0reads. \u201cThe Department of Agriculture, with space for more than 7,400 people, averaged 456 workers each day (6% occupancy). Why are American taxpayer dollars being spent to maintain empty buildings?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Citing a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/system\/files\/2024-07\/60390-EEAA.pdf\">report<\/a>\u00a0published in July 2024 by the Congressional Budget Office, the DOGE said the agency identified authorizations of appropriations that expired before the beginning of fiscal year 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>In FY2024, U.S. Congress provided $516 billion to programs whose authorizations previously expired under federal law. Nearly $320 billion of that $516 billion expired more a decade ago<\/strong>,\u201d a Wednesday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DOGE\/status\/1859453795404550546\">post<\/a>\u00a0on X states.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the DOGE\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DOGE\/status\/1858957615889543628\">criticized<\/a>\u00a0the Pentagon for not being able to fully account for $824 billion and failing its seventh annual audit in a row.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}